Survex 1.0.4 released

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:03:27PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> Anyway. Aven segfaults if you try to open something that isn't a .3d file (eg
> a .svx file or a Debian .dsc file). If you run it on the same file from the
> command line then it pops up a window telling you it's not a valid 3d file
> and then opens it's main window OK.
> 
> Version 1.0.1 does not suffer this problem, correctly saying 'bad 3d image
> file'.

It's trying to free an uninitialised pointer in 1.0.4.  I'll fix it in 1.0.5
but that's likely to be a week or so away.

> Looks like some room for improvement here. I'm inclined not to upload this
> release to replace the 1.0.1 currently in Debian unless we think this serious
> flaw is outweighed by the other imporovements.

There are fixes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.4 for several things which should work
but don't in 1.0.1.  I'd say that outweighs a problem with something which
shouldn't work and actually crashes.

There's an obvious workaround - don't try to load random files into Aven.
If you were to file this as a bug in the debian bug tracking system, the
severity level would probably be minor ("a problem which doesn't affect the
package's usefulness, and is presumably trivial to fix").  I think it would be
hard to justify it as normal, and it's certainly not important ("a bug which
has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it
completely unusable to everyone").  A bug with priority normal or lower
wouldn't stop the package moving from unstable into testing.

As you've built it, I'd suggest uploading it unless you feel strongly against
doing so.

Cheers,
Olly